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- From: pjg@acsu.buffalo.edu (Paul Graham)
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- Subject: Re: Sun4/SPARC
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- Date: 24 Aug 92 01:12:32 GMT
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- ram@shukra.Eng.Sun.COM (Renu Raman) writes:
- | There seems to be some confusion here -
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- true enough.
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- | From an application viewpoint - any SPARC binary will run on any Sun4<x>
- | based kernel/system.
-
- but i don't know that this statement dispels any of it. i think an
- answer to the original question is that SPARC is a generic term that
- can be be used to describe a variety of systems. some of which are
- sun4 and some of which are not. (sun's SS10, solbourne's 5e, &c., &c.
- spring to mind as sparc based systems that are not called sun4*).
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- what they have in common is a cpu that executes a common core of instructions.
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- too bad any SPARC binary won't run on any sun4 system. it would sure make
- my life easier.
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